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Seneca Falls Convention
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Declaration of Sentiments: blueprint for suffrage movement -
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Led by Francis Willard
Inspired by religious morals AND wives/mothers whose male family members became abusive, alcoholics, broke, etc. due to drinking.
Anti-alcohol education programs -
Jacob Riis
Created the book "How the Other Half Lives." It showed how the immigrants were living during the times of the progressive era -
NAWSA
Goal: get most states to pass woman's suffrage -
Anti-Saloon League
Were for prohibition:
Immigrants were constant drunks
Always at bars -
NY Tenement House Law
Established model housing code for safety and sanitation -
National Child Labor Committee
Hired a special photographer by the name of Lewis Hines who documented the working conditions of child laborers. -
Upton Sinclair
Wrote a book called "The Jungle" exposing the way food was really produced in our country. -
Meat Inspection Act
Authorized federal inspection of meat products -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Regulated production of the sales of food and medicines. Formed FDA. -
17th Amendment
Direct election of senators -
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Prohibited the shipment or delivery for interstate or foreign sale of any goods or services that were produced by laborers under the age of 14 in a factory, shop, oe cannerym and under 16 in a mine -
18th Amendment
Banned manufacure, sale, or transportation of alcohol -
19th Amendment
Woman's suffrage -
Fair Labor Today
Finally eliminated child labor
